Manny Jacinto on Darth Plagueis in The Acolyte: “There was a lot more to explore”

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Hosted by Collider’s Maggie Lovitt, the Many Jacinto panel at this past weekend’s FanExpo San Francisco gave fans a taste of what could have been as the Qimir actor revealed that had The Acolyte managed to make it to a second season, we would have seen more – a lot more – of Darth Plagueis, a character fans have wanted to know more about since he was first mentioned almost 20 years ago in Revenge of the Sith.

“There are definitely a lot of different theories, like who he is, because we never actually know his true identity. Is Qimir’s name actually Qimir? We definitely wanted to explore it. There was definitely going to be more of Plagueis in the second, or if not, the third seasons of the show, but I just can’t say, because, you know, we could come back. I don’t want to spoil anything, or give anybody any false hope, but I would just say there was a lot more to explore, for sure.”

What would the future of the show have been, had it continued? Would it have been three seasons and a movie, as some online chatter claims, and would we have bridged the gap from season 1 to The Phantom Menace itself? We may never know, but you can always ponder the possibilities over on Fantha Tracks socials.

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Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in '81 and has been a presence online since webpage Fanta War in 1996. He is the EiC and Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and currently contributes to ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, Star Wars – Das Offizielle Magazin, Journal of the Whills and Starburst Magazine, having previously contributed to magazines Star Wars Insider, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, partworks Build Darth Vader, Star Wars Encyclopedia, and Build The Millennium Falcon, and websites Jedi.net, Jedi News, StarWars.com, Lightsabre.co.uk, and Wirezone. He is the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015 (hosting it four times), and is the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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Hosted by Collider’s Maggie Lovitt, the Many Jacinto panel at this past weekend’s FanExpo San Francisco gave fans a taste of what could have been as the Qimir actor revealed that had The Acolyte managed to make it to a second season, we would have seen more – a lot more – of Darth Plagueis, a character fans have wanted to know more about since he was first mentioned almost 20 years ago in Revenge of the Sith.

“There are definitely a lot of different theories, like who he is, because we never actually know his true identity. Is Qimir’s name actually Qimir? We definitely wanted to explore it. There was definitely going to be more of Plagueis in the second, or if not, the third seasons of the show, but I just can’t say, because, you know, we could come back. I don’t want to spoil anything, or give anybody any false hope, but I would just say there was a lot more to explore, for sure.”

What would the future of the show have been, had it continued? Would it have been three seasons and a movie, as some online chatter claims, and would we have bridged the gap from season 1 to The Phantom Menace itself? We may never know, but you can always ponder the possibilities over on Fantha Tracks socials.

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Mark Newbold
Mark Newbold
Exploring the galaxy since 1978, Mark wrote his first fan fiction in '81 and has been a presence online since webpage Fanta War in 1996. He is the EiC and Daily Content Manager of Fantha Tracks and currently contributes to ILM.com, SkywalkerSound.com, Star Wars – Das Offizielle Magazin, Journal of the Whills and Starburst Magazine, having previously contributed to magazines Star Wars Insider, Geeky Monkey, TV Film Memorabilia, Model and Collectors Mart, partworks Build Darth Vader, Star Wars Encyclopedia, and Build The Millennium Falcon, and websites Jedi.net, Jedi News, StarWars.com, Lightsabre.co.uk, and Wirezone. He is the only podcaster to have appeared on every Celebration podcast stage since it began in 2015 (hosting it four times), and is the co-host of Making Tracks, Canon Fodder and Start Your Engines on Fantha Tracks Radio.
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